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Harry V. Keefe '39 Library Media Center, Boston Latin School: Instructional Videos

Welcome to the Keefe Library at Boston Latin School!

Resources from other libraries and services

Hoopla Use this BPL resource for ebooks, movies and music (4 min. 36 sec.)	Kanopy Students: Use this BPL resource for movies (2 min. 19 sec.)	Kanopy Teachers: Use this BPL resource to find films for World Language classes. (3 min. 29 sec.)
RB Digital Use this BPL resource for access to digital magazines (slides)	OpenEBooks BLS students and staff with accounts can use this to access popular teen, middle and elementary school ebooks (slides)	Sora Series of short videos on accessing Sora thru Clever, searching, adding participating libraries

Getting started on a research project

Picking your topic IS research (3 min. 15 sec.)

Database Searching

Library database v. Google (5 min. 18 sec.)
Databases: what's in there? (5 min. 21 sec.)
Search terms/keywords (2 min. 53 sec.)
Using databases (6 min. 2 sec.)

News and current events

Current events in the databases: Searching The Boston Globe (6 min. 21 sec.)
What do we mean by "news"? (15 min.)

Finding Scholarly Science Articles

Scholarly Science Articles Created for high school students. Topics include:

What is original research?
How and why to use the library databases
What is a scholarly article?
What is peer review?
How to locate full text articles
Citation basics

Searching EBSCO Discovery

Searching for a book in the Keefe Library and BPL (4 mins.)

Searching for books, ebooks, and articles using EBSCO (3 mins. 18 secs.

WeVideo Instruction

Wevideo Link here to the Wevideo Libguide, with info on how to sign up, share, edit and export.

Citation

Google Sheets Tutorials

Google Sheets Watch our series of tutorials to learn about how to use basic functions in Sheets and how to make beautiful charts!

Tech topics

Screencastify (2 min.)
Zoom Orientation (8 min. 22 sec.)